Met Eireann issue Status Orange wind warning for all of Ireland and a Red warning for all Irish coastal waters
Issued 13:00, Saturday, 8th February, by Evelyn Cusack, Head of Forecast Division and Eoin Sherlock, Head of Flood Forecast Division.
Storm Ciara will pass to the north of Ireland on Sunday. It will bring extremely windy and in places stormy conditions during the morning. Southwest winds will reach gale to strong gale force in strength with damaging gusts likely.
These gusts will affect parts of the country not normally impacted by such strong winds. Gusts will typically range between 100-130 km/h but they may exceed 140 km/h locally ( see animation below).
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Flooding Issues:
We are in a period of Spring Tides and these will coincide with very high seas which will start today Saturday and will continue into next week.
The combination of Spring Tides, high seas and extremely winds or stormy conditions will result in a significant risk of coastal flooding especially along northwestern and western coasts. This risk will persist into the middle of the coming week.
Storm Ciara will also bring very wet conditions with localised flooding possible as intense falls of rain spread across the country with some embedded thunderstorm activity.
Wintry weather
As Storm Ciara moves away on Sunday colder air is introduced over Ireland. This will bring scattered wintry precipitation later on Sunday night. The risk of snowfall increases as we move into the coming week. While snow showers may occur anywhere they will occur chiefly in parts of the north and west.
Kenneth from the Donegal Weather Channel
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